Expreview has got its hands on the NVIDIA Forceware Beta Driver 180.32 and used it to setup and enable SLI with two Galaxy GTX260-216, on an Asus P6T Deluxe motherboard. The cards scored a 3DMark Vantage score of P21623, compared against a single card score of P10920 gives an approximate 98% increase. Currently it is only possible to enable SLI officially on NVIDIA based chipsets, only AMD's equivalent Crossfire system works on Intel chipsets. It is evident that the 180 series of Forceware drivers from NVIDIA (dubbed Big Bang II) not only brings multi-monitor SLI support, but also paves the way to enabling SLI on the Intel X58 Chipset. In another article, Expreview have also mentioned that the beta driver 180.42, will be officially released from NVIDIA later on today, with the final version set for November 17th this year, coinciding with the launch of Intel's Core i7 and X58.

so basically they get 500 points more than my 192sp GTX260 SLI on 750i with less gpu score. Intel needs to make a dual core wolfdale with 12-16mb of cache at 4.5+Ghz for gamers... THAT would rock in games

I meant then their single score of course and here is the link, also I was off a little they scored higher then my setup by 78 points and that is with me using the drivers without the physics support in other words if I use the physics drivers I would score higher then the single card setup here....

I meant then their single score of course and here is the link, also I was off a little they scored higher then my setup by 78 points and that is with me using the drivers without the physics support in other words if I use the physics drivers I would score higher then the single card setup here....

I meant then their single score of course and here is the link, also I was off a little they scored higher then my setup by 78 points and that is with me using the drivers without the physics support in other words if I use the physics drivers I would score higher then the single card setup here....

We've got a Q9450 stock (2GB DDR2800 - sales are stupid) with a 512MB ASUS HD4870 and that scored P9028, I've set it to run another 2 tests to see what we get again, but yeah I'm not actually impressed with their single card score, however the SLi score is pretty damn good.

We've got a Q9450 stock (2GB DDR2800 - sales are stupid) with a 512MB ASUS HD4870 and that scored P9028, I've set it to run another 2 tests to see what we get again, but yeah I'm not actually impressed with their single card score, however the SLi score is pretty damn good.

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The single card score isn't great, thats for sure. I think they disabled PhysX for the single card run and re-enabled it for the SLi to try and boost the SLi score.

don't forget guys physics take a good part from this score, if it run without physics it will give a cheap score , we know future mark know this physics trick and try to release banchmark don't depend too much on physics